This year’s TIFF world premieres generating interest include Christy, the Sydney Sweeney-starring boxing biopic; Couture, Alice Winocour’s Paris Fashion Week drama Couture starring Angelina Jolie; Derek Cianfrance’s outlaw drama Roofman starring Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst; Rian Johnson’s new Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man with Daniel Craig back as Benoit Blanc; James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg with Russell Crowe; and Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune with Seth Rogen and Keanu Reeves; among many more.
UNDP Resident Representative Stefan Liller pointed to the impact of films beyond the festival.
According to the organizers, the star-studded guest list includes Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Keanu Reeves, Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Portman, Emily Blunt, Dwayne Johnson, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Matthew McConaughey, Sydney Sweeney, Paul Mescal, Elle Fanning, Mia Goth, Jodie Foster, Idris Elba, Dustin Hoffman, Ralph Fiennes, Riz Ahmed, Kerry Washington, Josh O’Connor, Lee Byung-hun, Park Chan-wook, Jafar Panahi, and many more.
In his 26-year career, Shakib has worked in Bangladeshi cinema for nearly two decades. After the COVID-19 pandemic, audiences began to see him in a new light. Some even call him “Shakib Khan 2.0.”
The closing night gala will take place on 19 October at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, with members of the ensemble cast expected to attend the UK premiere.
Alongside these, the Patrons’ Gala will show the UK premiere of Philippa Lowthorpe’s H Is for Hawk, while other highlights include Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, Sydney Sweeney’s Christy Martin biopic Christy and Guillermo del Toro’s retelling of Mary Shelley classic Frankenstein.
Her character is Alma, a philosophy professor at Yale University. Striding regally around its leafy quadrangles in a chic white suit that matches her blonde hair, this combatively intelligent alpha female is adored by everyone who knows her. Her husband Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is resigned to the fact that he loves her more than she loves him, and is willing to make whimsical jokes about the imbalance; Hank (Andrew Garfield), a would-be rebellious friend and colleague, is even more flirtatious with her than he is with everyone else; and her favourite PhD student, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), worships her – which could explain why she is Alma's favourite PhD student.
